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Show White Girl's "Burden." At the Atchison, Kan., carnival one of the attractions was an Indian girl orchestra from ona of tho government schools in Arizona. Somo of tho girls were full 'bloods and some wero half hotly said: "I am just as good as tho breeds. Two of them got to quarreling quarrel-ing over some small matter, and ono rest, of you, if I am half white." He Knew Why It Was. Mamma' (to a friend who la lunching lunch-ing wltk her) I don't know why It la, but I always eat more when we hare company than when we're alone. Tommy Tom-my (helping himself to the third piece of cake) I know why It Is 'cause we havo better things to eat. Brooklyn Life. Fine Portrait of McKlntey. D. J. Qreenhut of New York has Just bought what Is considered the boat Ufo-slzo portrait of President McKin-loy McKin-loy ovor painted. Tho presldont sat for this picture a short tlmo before his assassination. Mr. Qreenhut was a warm personal friend of Mr. MoKln-loy. MoKln-loy. Petroleum In Place of Coal. An effort Is being mado to securo legislation to compel the uso of pe-troloum pe-troloum Instead of coal In London. Tho fogs from which the city so often suffers suf-fers through Its Interference with both buslnoss and health la caused by un-consumed un-consumed particles of coal from Its chlmneyB. Automobiles and Dust In a study and discussion of dust, French scientists aro pointing out that tho quantity of minute particles ralsod and suspended In tho air has boon greatly Increased In urban communities com-munities by tho advent or tno automobile auto-mobile They estlmato that ono auto-mobtlo auto-mobtlo stirs up as mr ' duM as twenty carriages. New British Coaling Station. Sierra Leono Is to bo a British coaling station, and It Is Intundod permanently to attach a gunboat and a cruiser to It. Tho fortress at Blerra Leono has for somo tlmo past been strengthened by tho erection of somo of the most modorn guns of heavy caliber. Massachusetts' Smallest Town. Qosnold, tho smallest town in Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, comprises those littlo specks of land which, beginning at Wood's Holl, at tho "shoulder" of old Cape Cod's right arm, extend seaward till thoy terminate In that fatal reef of tho Sow and Pigs. |